Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 77
“Hallo,” said he to himself, when he caught sight of the second boot, “here is the other boot.
Who acts: Hallo, thief, other boot · What happens: say, catch, be, sight · To what, where: Hallo, sight, second boot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hallo, thief, other boot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Hallo | Hallo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hallo | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hallo | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 caught | punct |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 caught | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 caught | nsubj |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 13 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caught | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 boot | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boot | det |
| 16 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 boot | amod |
| 17 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sight | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 here | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 here | punct |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 caught | ccomp |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 here | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boot | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 boot | amod |
| 24 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 here | nsubj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hallo | Hallo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | thief | sight of the second boot | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the other boot | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sight | the second boot | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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